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January 10, 2021
Joe Biden is the United States presidential election winner, but his plans for NASA remain unclear. And while citizens digest the election results, the space industry is left wondering what comes next.
President-elect of the United States Joe Biden speaking with supporters at a community event at Sun City MacDonald Ranch in Henderson, Nevada. Image via Planetary Society/ Gage Skidmore.
Shortly before 4 a.m. (12:00 UTC) last week (January 7, 2021), Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the United States presidential election winner. Vice President Mike Pence, presiding over the joint session, announced the tally, 306-232. Whatever your political leanings, if you are a space fan, you watched closely during the Donald Trump administration as it supported NASA’s long-term goal of sending astronauts to Mars. And you saw our nation’s course change during Trump’s tenure to a short-term goal of returning the nex
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Corporate space flight lifts off in 2020: The major missions over the past year © Joe Skipper/Reuters, FILE A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off during SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 30, 2020. By the end of May, some two months after the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S., the nation was in a deep crisis. Hundreds of thousands were sick with the virus, millions were unemployed and the nation was in the midst of a bitter presidential election. But amid the despair and division, a rare moment of unity emerged with the launch of the two Space Dads, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the first NASA-SpaceX astronauts, to the International Space Station ending a nearly decade-long American dependency on Russia.
2020 Saw Many Successes in Space Exploration
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This SpaceX video frame grab image shows SpaceX s Starship SN8 rocket prototype taking off at the company s Boca Chica, Texas facility during an attempted high-altitude launch test on December 9, 2020. (Photo by - / SPACEX / AFP)
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Three countries sent
spacecraft toward Mars in 2020. Astronauts launched into orbit from the United States for the first time in nearly 10 years. And robotic explorers collected rocks from the Moon and from an
asteroid.
High Expectations for 2021
Expectations are high for 2021 also. Next February, landings are expected on Mars and the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is to take place in the autumn. The huge telescope is taking the place of the famous Hubble Space Telescope.
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